Page 84. ~ Terrace Standard, Wednesday, JUNE 19, 1991

Desperatel

‘It was Earth Day Eve and
people everywhere were getting
ready for the big event.

: Trendy T-shirts with images
of the big blue marble were be-'

ig sold by the armloads to the

reat delight of fast-buck
buckayoos who had anticipated
ihe burgeoning interest ‘in’ the
greening of the planet and were
how gleefully watching the

preening of their bank accounts.
Parents and schools were buy-:

ing seedlings for their kidlings

to plant on the big day. And the:
big dailies were preparing to’
print “Save. the Planet’? ‘sup-".

plements. upon’. hundreds’ of
thousands of tonnes of the stew-

ed and flattened remains of rain. :

forests.

Webb. and [I were. trying 10°

figure out where on Earth to
find some unsullied,
solitudinous angling.

“The Ishkheenickh!”' 1 ex-
claimed as the light bulb lit up,

-SPORTSCOPE -
Pan-Am
bound

KITIMAT’s Lisa Ling is
heading to Curacao, in the
Dutch Antilles, at the end of
the month to compete at the
199] Pan-American Karate
Championships.

Ling is one of only two
B.C. women, on the Cana-
dian national karate team go-
ing to the June 28-30 cham-
pionships.

More than 30° countries
from North, South and Cen-
tral America and the Carib-
bean are sending teams to the
championships,

Zone tennis
team picked

EIGHT “TERRACE tennis
players and six Kitimat
players will represent the
zone at the B.C. Summer
Games in Coquitlam this Ju-
ly.

They won the honour June
i at the playoffs in Kitimat.

Off to the Games July 25
are:

Men’s singles — Mike
Gyori (Kitimat)

Women’s singles — Hester
Flewin (Terrace)

Men's doubles — Richard
Kriegl (Terrace) and Alex
Kotai (Kitimat)

Women’s doubles — Nan-
cy Condon (Terrace) and
Diane Cey (Terrace)

Mixed doubles — Doug
Jenion (Terrace) and Dee Je-
nion (Terrace) -

Girls’ singles — Vesna
Kontic (Terrace)

Boys’ singles — Kevin Hill
(Terrace)

Girls’ doubles — Shannon ,
Hartmann (Kitimat) and
Tanyo Tewnion (Kitimat)

Boys’ doubles — Fred
Sieriki (Kitimat) and David
Kotai (Kitimat)

. ' + . .
Tony’s toast
YOU WON'T BE hearing
Tiger Williams as.a guest on
a nightly. radio sports show
on AM 59 anymore,

‘That’s because the show,
and host Tony Gallagher,
have been taken off the air
by CKWX, its originating
station ‘in Vancouver.

A CKWX statement in-
dicated an attempt to market
Gallagher’s show on the
Prairies and eastward ran in-
to difficulties of time zones
and on the kind of coverage
it provided.

The Jatter concerned the
show trying to become na-
tional or ‘concentrating on
regional items of interest.

AM 59 spokesman Tim.
MacLeai, said the station had:
no.say in: ‘the matter, . .

-Gallatiger has been replac-
ed. by another Vancouver-
based sports show,

A decision. to keep Dan
Russell’s Sports: Talk on the.

mer, § said MacLean:

air will be made: in late sum+"

“The Nisga’a have put a gate
across the road just on the other
‘side of the log dump. Nobody

will be able to get in there»

now.””

“It's a long way into the river
from ‘there,?? observed Webb,
raising one eyebrow.

“Mountain bikes — we'll
pack our gear on our backs and

‘ bike in,’’ my voice rose to em-

phasize the absolute brilliance
of the concept. ‘We'll have the

-whole river to ourselves, And -

it's prime time; iv be just like
the good old days.””

“What about the natives?
We'll’ be trespassing, won't
wer?

“Naw, I heard they only want
to keep.’ the loggers~ out,” I

wasn’t. as sure as [ made out,

but 1 was sure enough. °

. I eould tell that Webb was
still’ skeptical, but he was
softening — the lure of wild
fishing ‘for ‘wild, fish, with no

The Skeena
Angler
by Rob Brown

company but our own was
simply too appealing. |

“OK,” he said hesitantly,

“but we'll have to leave early.”

We did, It was Spring. It was
warm. The air was clean and
cool, The rivers would be tao.
At Lava Lake a fox with a
ridiculously large, bushy tail
trotted across the road in front
of us. At Beaupre we passed a
moose standing knee-high in
one of the side channels of the
Tseax, munching on some
dogwood.

Mossy lava spread 0 out over

PORTS NE

the valley bottom, punctuated
by bonsai-like trees and cir-
cumscribed by steep, ‘slide-.,
scarred mountains. Scenery de-
fying reproduction, that's: how
the Nass is, and that is how it
was as we rolled over the

bridges crossing darkly stained’.

creeks. and sloughs: toy the
Ishkheenickh.""

We reached the gate. Parked

next to it was an orange and
white recreational vehicle. Off
the ‘foad, next to’. the RV,
miscellaneous _. camping
paraphernalia: was" “boldly

strewn n about. we
“So we're not alone," ‘webb
sounded 4 Jittle crestfallen.”
I -consoled: him: *‘He's. got:a

trailer, They’ve gone down, the:
Nass:-by. boat. There's no: way’ eo
they'll walk. to the upper, river,

and that’s where we'll ‘be.’

We shouldered. our packs nd: -
™. started out.

It. was > ‘mid,
morning. - Jt’ had been’ getting
warmer. ”. For. long ‘stretches; -

where the’ shadow of the moun- ,

tains fell on the road, it was still’
winter; we were forced to_dis-
mount,and. push... the - bikes
through the stiow.

After a couple of: sweaty

hours, we reached the river. The
road to, the , \best runs. was
covered with. snow, We ‘shackl-
ed the’ bikes to-a tree and set
out,

The kind of snow on ithe road
up the Ishkheenickh — the kind
that .you break through on every
second step — isa four-letter

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD .

~ Junior vol leys ee
~ DAVID FLEMING was one of 70 focal youngsters in action last weekend on the Kalum tennis

courts, He was playing against other age eight to 1 boys and airisin in the Terrace Junior Volleys"
- play. dayournament on Saturday,

Ed Ansems raced to a stunn-
ing silver-medal finish at ihe
Canadian Masters Hallf-
Marathon Championships in
West Vancouver June 2.

_ The 43-year-old Terrace

_ masters runner.ran the

13.1-mile course in a time of.
1:18:09, about 80 seconds off

- the winning time-in his 40- to

‘44-year-old age group.
_ Ansems time gave him se-
cond place in that division and

-[. he ended up third-place overall
- in the over-40 masters competi.

tion, as one older runner edged
him out.

It was also good for ninth

Place overall against afield oF

-more than 280 of thé nation’s |
best racing in the West: Van-
- couver Halt-Marathon,: os

He wis competing ‘against

a

Ed Ansems

more than 70. runners in his
ownage division. ;
» The weather conditions were

near-Ideal brit Ansems said the |:

hilly course proved to be a:
challenge to all ranners, pro-.
ducing slower times than he’s.

\nsems takes 2nd

seen on other courses, -

At Inst year's half-marathon.
in Terrace, Ansems ran a.
1:14:47 race and says he’s
completed half-marathons
around the 70 minute mark
before. , :

Prince Rupert's Ray
Leonard was the other nor-
thwest representative at the.
race, finishing an impressive
fifth overall in masters-and
12th overall in the race. .

The impressive race finlsh..

was Ansems’ third of the year.
He picked up wing In the five- :
kilometre events last month at
Prince Rupert's Glory Days:
race and Terrace’ 8 ‘Kermodel
Classe.

"She races have been good -

io fo he te mit the times

"My legs ached ‘and myfeet 1

there: ‘were. footprints; :
_ there’was rock, instead of, tad

word, We crunched!:up®
valley for another, three ni

but the etholight ahi of pr fish:
three’ fine runs roa ad

three chattering . rifles,
there was sand on. the, b

“there: were ‘little: bits of paper, : oe

line and other. signs, of crude
fishing pressure. ; i...
- |. waded.across the stream an

around. the bend .ta, “the head |
pool. Sitting on. the” riverside.

was a large helicopter, In. front .

of the: machine, silting. in lawn.

chairs sat, three fishermen and.a

isher woman, their-rods prop- ~~ ae

ped on forked-sticks and their
line extending into the river... aH

I thought of walking
upstream to wish them ’ a happy
Earth Day. But I didn’ te My

Jegs w were too sore. oe

Northmen —

blast Rupert

PR, RUPERT — In a dramatic
clash of bodies and per-
sonalities, the Terrace Nor-
thmen kept their winning streak
alive with a convincing 16-0 win

over the Prince Rupert Rugby”

Football Club in Prince Rupert
on Seafest Saturday night.

The Northmen = are
undefeated in their first eight
games of the season and as of
late no team has been able to
score against the ultra-tight,
Northmen defence." jer bas

The June 8 match fad the
Rupert team . fired..up. for .a.
hometown win: Warming up a
full 90 minutes before the con-
test and fielding their strongest
team of the season, they were a
force to be reckoned with.

The Northmen put the first
score on the board. at the
18-minute mark with a penalty
kick by Doug Wilson in a
45-km/h_ swirling Nor’wester,
giving the Terrace squad 2 ‘3-0
lead.

Minutes later Smithers Camel
player Ray Euverman — put-

tee

ting in a guest appearance for .

the Northmen — rolled off a
maul and plunged’ across the
Rupert try line, putting the Nor-
thmen up 7-0. Wilson missed
the conversion attempt, and the
possible two points.

Tempers flared in. the first
half with the referee having to
caution many players from both
sides to mind their manners or
face expulsion from the match.

The only injury in the first
half saw referee Adrian Enright
knocked down by a Terrace’
player, thereby damaging his
knee. Both sides concurred it:
was due to.North Coast. Rugby
Union senior refeteeEnright's
terrible eyesight that he didn't
see the player coming at him,
but in his defence, Enright
claims that. because he was so
close to the play (as always) he
couldn't avoid being hit...
ite )gegond., half was only,
minutes old when Doug Wilson
cementec_his. position. as scoring
leader in the NCRU with @
three-point penalty kick. It is
very unlikely anyone will catch
Wilson in the scoring | race.

The driving:" "rain ® ‘and =the
reléntless Northtien: continued
to pound down on Rupert. With
11. minutes remaining in the
game, team captain * ‘Ernie
Dusdal played :one of his
patented “number..8: plekups”’
off. the :back ‘of a: five-yard
scrum and gave Terrace four
more points.

Doug Wilson rounded the
score off at 16 with his two-.

‘point conversion kick. The

hard-fought. game ended with
replacement referee Kalvin Basi
blowing up. full. time..to signal
yet another Northmen victory.

The Northmen had fast
weekend off and will resume
play with‘a Saturday night con-
test in Smithers.

Athletes awarded —
school track meet -

TERRACE — More than 300 ,
” students and eight local elemen-
tary schools were at.the Skeena:

Jr. Secondary field June 8-to

‘ compete ina district elementary
schools track and field meet. |

Numerous .medals were

awarded, and several children

were-: ‘named. ‘outstanding.
athletes for. collecting: “several.
medals, -

: Nine- -year- sold Uplands,
athlete Tracy Manchulenko was ~
the outstanding git! with 4wo

_» First, ‘Place finishes arid one se-
cond.”

“Brett Downie,” ‘of
Clarence ‘: Michiel, . topped. the «

nine-year-old boys’ competition
‘with a pair of firsts and ane se

-cond..
- Jesse . ‘Bartlett, 10,: ‘of That:

~ hill Primary, won» ithe, ag-:

gregate in‘age-10 girls. division,
with three firsts and one third-

place - finish. New Hazelton’s__

“Toyeara boy:

Age) i eile competion saw”

Bric. Farleigh ‘won uri events:

Uplands’. Roxaiine Chow earn -

the outstanding achievement

award with ‘three wins: aand one’

second-place per formance:

‘Charles Parks, from:Thornhill, .
had another trio of-fifsts to take -

the 1i-year-old boys division. -
Kelsey Hidber.. won, .two

events: -and’: was: ‘sétond : in a.

‘third, to bring oné: “ar. tle ag-
gregate awards home
‘Hall. et
' Uplands’

Cynth

+ +

~~.

‘outstanding : 13-yeat:

ed the outstanding
ha a

es. ‘at” the pe

new marks in’ the: 1400-meire,:

i

a

Kenyon.
“had: three firsts and @ second at.
the meet to’ qualify’ ‘as the
da: girl:
“while Thornhill’s Jamie'Bennett:
"had three event wins to:be ‘nam:

eS an
Hidber ‘and - Brett? Downie set:

‘Roxanne Chow: broke. the.old.
high: jump: record, ° cand: Tayih: wee
: Longridge put up a new mark to’
alm for in ‘the ball throw, i